Thomas A. Morris

Thomas Armstrong Morris (26 December 1811-1 April 1904) was a Union Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
Thomas Armstrong Morris was born in Nicholas County, Kentucky in 1811, and he was raised in central Indiana by his pioneer family. He graduated from West Point in 1834, placing fourth in his class, and he served as a US Army engineer before becoming Indiana's resident state engineer. He went on to supervise the construction of several railroads before the American Civil War broke out, upon which he raised an Indiana regiment for the Union Army. Morris fought in several battles in West Virginia from the Battle of Philippi to the Battle of Corrick's Ford, with the latter victory on 13 July 1861 securing West Virginia for the Union. He declined promotions in 1862 and instead returned to the railroad industry, and he oversaw the construction of the State House in 1880 and served as President of the Indianapolis Water Company from 1888 until his death in 1904.